Unit 1 Sight words, schwa n, and academic

vocabulary

1. rolled 2. fingers 3. except 4. speed 5. couldn't 6. questions 7. catch 8. itself 9. mark 10. button 11. bargain 12. specific 13. quantity 14. erroneous 15. immaculate 16. champion

17. ad 18. add 19. affect 20. effect

Unit 2 Sight words, schwa n, and academic

vocabulary

1. yourself 2. maybe 3. problem 4. complete 5. rather 6. crowd 7. since 8. fresh 9. piece 10. contemplate 11. shiny 12. response 13. support 14. revise 15. explain 16. irrelevant 17. aisle 18. isle 19. threw 20. though

Unit 3 Sight words, schwa n, and academic

vocabulary

1. usually 2. character 3. friends 4. whom 5. heard 6. order 7. villain 8. basin 9. carton 10. become 11. pumpkin 12. summarize 13. infer 14. compare 15. evaluate 16. motion 17. allowed 18. aloud 19. ant 20. aunt

Unit 4 Sight words, al/il, and academic

vocabulary

1. twelve 2. proverb 3. across 4. today 5. during 6. metaphor 7. simile 8. quiz 9. however 10. proposal 11. bridal 12.formulate 13. analyze 14. describe 15. incomplete 16. sparkle 17. principal 18. principle 19. creak 20. creek

Unit 5 Sight words, al/il, and academic

vocabulary

1. hours 2. twenty 3. products 4. happened 5. whine 6. measure 7. remember 8. early 9. utensil 10. mortal 11. vocal 12. investigate 13. justify 14. specific 15. opinion 16. vibrant 17. wait 18. weight 19. scent 20. sent

Unit 6 Sight words, ile/il, and academic

vocabulary

1. thirty

2. synonym 3. antonym 4. usefulness 5. covered 6. anyone 7. several 8. juvenile 9. reptile 10. toward 11. fragile 12. develop 13. fact 14. event 15. group 16. juicy 17. wring 18. ring 19. your 20. you’re

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Unit 7 Sight words, -al/-el, and academic

vocabulary

1. extend 2. keyboard 3. monitor 4. vowel 5. portal 6. tunnel 7. against 8. numerical 9. fatal 10. oval 11. towel 12. conclusion 13. consider 14. design 15. detail 16. muscular 17. ate 18. eight 19. ball 20. bawl

Unit 8 Sight words, -le pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. vegetable 2. tomatoes 3. slowly 4. potato 5. carrot 6. onion 7. jungle 8. crumble 9. voice 10. puzzle 11. ankle 12. freckle 13. knuckle 14. camouflage 15. hibernate 16. controlling 17. be 18. bee 19. blew 20. blue

Unit 9 Sight words academic vocabulary

1. usually 2. character 3. friends 4. whom 5. heard 6. order 7. villain 8. basin 9. carton 10. become 11. pumpkin 12. conclude 13. edit 14. prewrite 15.draft 16. amazed 17. board 18. bored 19. brake 20. break

Unit 10 Sight words academic vocabulary

1. twelve 2. proverb 3. across 4. today 5. during 6. metaphor 7. simile 8. quiz 9. however 10. proposal 11. bridal 12. dialogue 13. beautiful 14. terrible 15. hemisphere 16. their 17. there 18. they’re 19. then 20. than

Unit 11 Sight words academic vocabulary

1. hours 2. twenty 3. products 4. happened 5. whine 6. measure 7. remember 8. early 9. utensil 10. mortal 11. vocal 12. neutral 13. thrive 14. council 15. nutrients 16. too 17. two 18. to 19. ad 20. add

Unit 12 Sight words and academic vocabulary

1. thirty 2. synonym 3. antonym 4. usefulness 5. covered 6. anyone 7. several 8. juvenile 9. reptile 10. toward 11. fragile 12. hostile 13. tonsil 14. depend 15. destroyed 16. discover 17. close 18. clothes 19. die 20. dye

   

Unit 13 Sight words, -ure pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. rolled 2. fingers 3. except 4. speed 5. couldn't 6. questions 7. catch 8. itself 9. mark 10. button 11. bargain 12. certain 13. orphan 14. fountain 15. absolute 16. four 17. for 18. fore 19. knew 20. new

Unit 14 Sight words, -ure pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. yourself 2. maybe 3. problem 4. complete 5. rather 6. crowd 7. since 8. fresh 9. piece 10. children 11. heaven 12. satin 13. penguin 14. ecosystem 15. organism 16. hairy 17. groan 18. grown 19. guessed 20. guest

Unit 15 Sight words, -et pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. sixteen 2. chicken 3. elephant 4. island 5. gorilla 6. dolphin 7. machine 8. ticket 9. diet 10. puppet 11. banquet 12. gadget 13. musket 14. fluorescent 15. strike 16. exclusion 17. hair 18. hare 19. he’ll 20. heal

Unit 16 Sight words, -it pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. sixty 2. system 3. buffalo 4. monkey 5. alligator 6. wolves 7. kangaroo 8. force 9. brought 10. understand 11. audit 12. credit 13. hermit 14. vomit 15. habit 16. bandit 17. hay 18. hey 19. here 20. hear

Unit 17 Sight words, -age pattern, and academic

vocabulary

1. academic 2. college 3. university 4. explain 5. adage 6. courage 7. language 8. luggage 9. storage 10. thousands 11. bandage 12. cabbage 13. carriage 14. damage 15. garbage 16. reservoir 17. hi 18. high 19. hoarse 20. horse

Unit 18 Sight words, -edge/-idge patterns, and

academic vocabulary

1. seventy 2. rhombus 3. equation 4. average 5. government 6. filled 7. pledge 8. bridge 9. ridge 10. wedge 11. ledge 12. cartridge 13. partridge 14. porridge 15. knowledge 16. navigation 17. whole 18. hole 19. hours 20. ours

   

Unit 19 Sight words, long -o words, and academic

vocabulary

1. object 2. castle 3. knight 4. queen 5. prince 6. kingdom 7. alone 8. ghost 9. robot 10. program 11. compose 12. coastal 13. soapy 14. toaster 15. owner 16. entrepreneur 17. I 18. eye 19. in 20. inn

Unit 20 Sight words, long -o words, and academic

vocabulary

1. solo 2. duet 3. material 4. special 5. heavy 6. trio 7. choir 8. axe 9. include 10. homework 11. lower 12. bony 13. stroller 14. decode 15. molten 16. engineer 17. knight 18. night 19. knot 20. not

Unit 21 Sight words, short -o words, and

academic vocabulary

1.. positive 2. negative 3. square 4. syllables 5. perhaps 6. hammer 7. nail 8. suddenly 9. chain 10. wrench 11. adopt 12. bother 13. congress 14. comment 15. monster 16. parallel 17. lessen 18. lesson 19. made 20. maid

Unit 22 Sight words, short -u words, and

academic vocabulary

1. hotel 2. guest 3. ready 4. anything 5. elevator 6. generalize 7. energy 8. subject 9. Europe 10. umbrella 11. bubble 12. husband 13. bucket 14. publish 15. snuggle 16. inflation 17. mail 18. male 19. marry 20. merry

Unit 23 Sight words, long -u words, and academic

vocabulary

1. region 2. return 3. believe 4. joined 5. members 6. contest 7. reject 8. cells 9. universe 10. computer 11. abuse 12. lukewarm 13. salute 14. rumor 15. tutor 16. actor 17. meat 18. meet 19. one 20. won

Unit 24 Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and

academic vocabulary

1. eighty 2. sheriff 3. rodeo 4. exercise 5. wagon 6. train 7. railroad 8. saddle 9. calf 10. developed 11. alarm 12. carbon 13. charcoal 14. marble 15. scarlet 16. aurora 17. pear 18. pair 19. pause 20. paws

   

Unit 25 Sight words, r-controlled vowels, and

academic vocabulary

1. window 2. difference 3. eighteen 4. heart 5. site 6. burning 7. corner 8. harmfully 9. curtain 10. probably 11. parsley 12. tardy 13. tariff 14. prairie 15. barrel 16. ray 17. piece 18. peace 19. plain 20. plane

Unit 26 Sight words, -oo/-ew words, and

academic vocabulary

1. actress 2. theatre 3. solve 4. appear 5. metal 6. dramatic 7. either 8. neither 9. goose 10. village 11. aloof 12. moody 13. raccoon 14. askew 15. jewel 16. moose 17. poor 18. pour 19. principal 20. principle

Unit 27 Sight words, -oo words, and academic

vocabulary

1. factors 2. result 3. camera 4. video 5. image 6. frame 7. movies 8. zoom 9. cookies 10. neighborhood 11. flooding 12. cookout 13. footprint 14. woodland 15. mistook 16. spooky 17. read 18. red 19. write 20. right

Unit 28 Sight words, -shun sound, and academic

vocabulary

1. decade 2. century 3. outside 4. everything 5. release 6. already 7. instead 8. phrase 9. distraction 10. completion 11. affection 12. collection 13. construction 14. fraction 15. inspection 16. inaccurate 17. rose 18. rows 19. sale 20. sail

Unit 29 Sight words, -shun sound, and academic

vocabulary

1. orange 2. banana 3. grapefruit 4. pineapple 5. strawberry 6. laughed 7. lemon 8. quite 9. type 10. themselves 11. protection 12. reaction 13. compassion 14. adoption 15. corruption 16. illiterate 17. sum 18. some 19. sea 20. see

Unit 30 Sight words, -shun sound, and academic

vocabulary

1. temperature 2. mirror 3.vbreeze 4. calm 5. method 6. section 7. devotion 8. infection 9. within 10. dictionary 11. digestion 12. disruption 13. invention 14. prevention 15. suggestion 16. immobile 17. sew 18. so 19. son 20. sun

   

Studying Tips:    

Here's a shortcut version of the

strategies for studying spelling words:

1. Say 2.Stretch 3.Split up 4. Count 5.Draw blanks 6.Record 7.Study 8.Write 9.Give meaning

Give Meaning What does ______ mean? When it's dark out. Stretch the word – /nnn-iii-t-t-t/

Work by syllables if necessary.

If a sound can't be stretched, stutter it.

Say the word – night

-Say each syllable if there are more than one.

Write the word – night  

Study the spelling.

Ask, what does [the pattern] say? In our

example, what does igh say? Only ask

about tricky parts.

Record the spelling sound by sound.  

Draw blanks ___ ___ ___

-The blanks stand for the sounds.

-Put slashes between syllables if necessary.

-Next, help the student learn the spelling.

Count the sounds. 3  

Split up the sounds.

Work by syllables if necessary.

First sound? /n/

Next sound? /i/

Last sound? /t/

On the first blank, write the letters – n __ __

On the next blank, write the next letters – n igh __

On the last blank, write the last letters – n igh t

If there are silent letters, caret them in.

Excerpted and adapted from: Murray, B. (1999). How to Study Spelling

Words. The Reading Genie, Auburn University.